Travel Health Links
External Links to Travel Medicine Information
Visit these web sites for further Information regarding travelers health issues:
World Health Map
Travel Medicine Program – Public Health Agency of Canada
Travel Health Online
www.tripprep.com/scripts/main/default.asp
Travel Health Advisories – Public Health Agency of Canada
www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/tmp-pmv/pub_e.html
National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI)
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/naci-ccni/
Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT)
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/tmp-pmv/catmat-ccmtmv/
International Travel and Health
http://www.who.int/topics/travel/en/
Center for Infectious Disease
Advice for Safe and Healthy Travel for Students
www.cdc.gov/Features/StudyAbroad/
International Association for Medical Assistance to Travellers
www.cdc.gov/travel/www.iamat.org/
Uvic Student Health Services
The Globe and Mail Health Page
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/search/?q=health
For specific concerns please visit the following sites for detailed information. We advise you to read over these files and come to your appointment prepared with your questions.
Children and Immunizations
www.bchealthguide.org/healthfiles/hfile50a.stm
Dukoral for Travellers. BC Health File # 41k
http://www.healthlinkbc.ca/healthfiles/pdf/hfile41k.pdf
Travellers Diarrhea. BC Health File # 41e
http://www.healthlinkbc.ca/healthfiles/pdf/hfile41e.pdf
Hepatitis A
http://www.healthlinkbc.ca/healthfiles/pdf/hfile33.pdf
www.bccdc.ca/imm-vac/VaccinesBC/ImmsVaccineHepA.htm
Hepatitis B
http://www.healthlinkbc.ca/healthfiles/pdf/hfile25a.pdf
Japanese Encephalitis
www.bchealthguide.org/healthfiles/hfile41h.stm
www.bccdc.ca/dis-cond/a-z/_j/JapaneseBEncephalitis/overview/Japanese+Encephalitis.htm
Malaria. BC Health File # 41f
www.bchealthguide.org/healthfiles/hfile41f.stm
Measles, Mumps, Rubella
www.bchealthguide.org/healthfiles/hfile14a.stm
Meningococcal C Infection: Conjugate Vaccine BC Health File # 23a
www.bchealthguide.org/healthfiles/hfile23a.stm
Oral Rehydration Solutions
www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/tmp-pmv/info/oral-eng.php
Polio
www.bchealthguide.org/healthfiles/hfile13.stm
www.bccdc.ca/imm-vac/VaccinesBC/PolioVaccine.htm
The Pregnant Traveler
www.bchealthguide.org/healthfiles/hfile41g.stm
www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/tmp-pmv/info/tp-ve-eng.php
Rabies
www.bchealthguide.org/healthfiles/hfile07.stm
Sexually Transmitted Diseases and the Traveller: BC Health File # 41b
www.bchealthguide.org/healthfiles/hfile41b.stm
Travel Health Kits
www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/tmp-pmv/info/kit-tp-eng.php
Travelling with Infants and Children. BC Health File # 41d
www.bchealthguide.org/healthfiles/hfile41d.stm
Typhoid. BC Health File # 41j
www.bchealthguide.org/healthfiles/hfile41j.stm
Yellow Fever